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From: Alex Dyas <ADyas@twowaytv.com>
To: David Leimbach <dleimbac@earthlink.net>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: RE: __ how to eliminate "^M" in ASCII files.
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> cat file | tr '\015' ' '
> 
> all ^M replaced with spaces... maybe not the best example.

cat file | tr -d '\015'

gets rid of them.

alex...

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